Category: Towns and villages
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Walk around Shoreham
River The Darrent River, which originates in the Greensand Hills, in Shoteham is neither wide nor deep. A picturesque, three-span, stone bridge passes through it with a solid balustrade made of brick. The current structure is nineteenth-century, although it is said that the bridge has existed here in the Middle Ages. A weeping willow growing…
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15 reasons to visit Rochester
Important town for early English Christianity, English history, architecture and especially literature. I would like to invite you all to visit this place and I found 15 reasons why you should do it: Castle – Impressive ruins standing on the banks of the Medway. He recently celebrated the 800th anniversary of the siege of King…
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Tonbridge
I have heard about Tonbridge many times that it is charming, but above all, it is expensive to live in, because house prices are at the forefront in the country. Although it is only half an hour from Maidstone to Tonbridge, it has never been “on my way”. Until one day, my dentist sent me…
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Dancing with the deers in Knole
In 1456, the Archbishop of Canterbury bought a huge estate in southern Kent. He rebuilt the house in the Tudor style at the time, but made it look more like an Oxford University Hall than a residential building. Like this famous university, the manor has two courtyards. The entrance gate leads to the first courtyard…
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EAT AND MESS
Together with my teenage daughter, we love to discover new cafes, tea rooms that either delight us or criticize them. And just yesterday during a visit to the orthopedist in Sevenoaks we went to lunch in a tiny, independent cafe called Eat and Mess. We liked the interior very much, it was tastefully decorated and…
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Gurudwara, Sikh Temple in Gravesend
Great Britain is a country of multicultural community, people from various parts of the world have been emigrating here for hundreds of years and, many of them, have created here their enclaves, the little substitutes for their countries and cultures. For these people living far away from their families and friends religion became very important…
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Pocahontas in Gravesend
Do you remember the famous Disney tale of the Indian princess Pocahontas? In brief, I will tell you: A pretty Indian woman meets English dreamer John Smith and tells him about her world. Of course, they fall in love, which will lead to war between Indians and English. Smith will be sentenced to death, but…
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Castle in Rochester
In the south-east of England, in the town of Rochester an amazing castle with a high tower was built in Norman times, in a strategic place on the crossing of the River Medway, way from Europe to London. Walls of the castle were 3-5 meters thick. Only ruins have survived to the present times, but…
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Cathedral in Rochester
I would like to tell you today about a beautiful Christian temple that has existed in Kent since 604. The beginnings of the cathedral are closely related to the beginnings of Christianity in England. The first builder was Bishop Justus, an Italian who came here at the request of Pope Gregory the Great, in a…
Discovering Kent 